io6 Salmon s Herbal . Lib. L 
3 
IV. The Places. It grows in Salt Marfhes, by 
the fides of Rivers and Brooks which daily Bow 
with Salt Water, and in Handing Waters which are 
iomecimes overflowed with Salt Floods, or where 
the Salt Water Bows fo high as to reach the Roots 
thereof. I found it growing in and near the Marfhes 
by Kmgs-1 \nn in Norfolk, and near the Sea-Jhore in 
rnanv other places. 
V’. The Times . It Bowers in June and July, and 
the Seed is ripe not long after. 
VI. As toits Vitalities and Virtues , Authors have 
been Blent thereon , and I knowing nothing by Ex- 
perience concerning it, ihall forbear any farther Dif- 
courfe about it. 
CHAP. CCXXIV. 
Of DODDER. 
I.Hp HE Karnes. It is called in Arabick , Chaf 
X full? , and Cufcuih : in Greek, KrfWQa, x} y^cr- 
ffv-rrti : in I .at in, Cufcuta , Cajfuta , Caffyta , Podagra 
lint , Angina Uni : in Englifh , Dodder. 
II. T be Kinds. It is a fingular Plant of the kind, 
and yet is various ^ for being a Climer, it is laid by 
Authors to be as manifold as are the Plants upon 
which it climbs, and accordingly has gotten as ma- 
iiv Surnames j as, ‘EA'ivpov, Epithymum , Dodder of 
time: W.t far©, Epntithyma/us, Dodder of Spurge: 
S P.phlltlCd. Doddt-'l of iNCttleS ‘. £77?f VyyiOV, 
Eperynorium , Dodder ol fay n go : e^aWxn, Epia- 
p'<act\ Dodder of Tares : bn C' ihm, Epibicium idem : 
i-r.c-m. 77 Epigeniflon , Dodder of Broom : w/x 7 ?ftci', 
hpididamnus, Dodder of Dittany : Epi- 
1 hymbra , Dodder of Savory : Epibaton , 
Dodder or Brambles : iwA/wr, Ejuhnum , Dodder of 
l lax: Epilibanetis , Dodder of Rolema- 
ry, or Herb Frankincenfe -. Epmarum , Dod- 
der of Herb Mafticha : bixa^aC/?, Epicannabis, Dod- 
der of Hemp : fofc? mp, Epibryon , Dodder of Hops . 
eWxw, Epipolium , Dodder of Polimountain : brVofu, 
Epifta’be , Dodder of Knapweed: fra^axo!', 
maracum, Dodder of Marjoram : Epubjin- 
thion , Dodder of Wormwood : bn^caJ' Epich.:- 
mtedry 's , Dodder of Germander : s^«^Jaxr«, Epid'a- 
mxalte , Dodder of Dwarf Elder : ^b'cj&rr©-, £/>/- 
hvjfopus, Dodder of Hy flop, 6?V. And yer, norvvith- 
ttanding all this Variety of Names , it is but one 
Plant or Herb, and has but one Defcription. 
III. The Defcription.' T bis Herb taking Root in 
the Ground from Seed , Jhoots forth Threads or 
Strings grojfer or finer , ^ rfo Property of the Cli- 
mate^ Quality of the Earthy and Nature of the Plant 
on which it grows will admits creeping and fpread- 
ing on that Plant on which it fafineth , £>;• /f/wz which 
it climbs , fo it high or low , clafping about the very 
Grafs, if it meets with nothing elfe. Thefe Strings 
are many, but have no Leaves at all, and windeand 
interlace themfelves fo thick many times upon a 
fmall Plant, that it deprives it (as it were) of the 
Heat of the Sun, and feemingly choaks it : after 
thefe Strings are rifen up to that height and ttrength, 
that they may draw Nourilhment from the Plant 
upon which they climb, you (hall fcarcely fee any 
Appearance of the Rife of thofe Strings from the 
Earth, they being broken off by fome Accident, or 
withred by the Heat of the Sun, or otherwife de- 
cayed ( from which Appearance I believe it was, 
that Matthiolus and fome others did think it to 
grow without Root, and not firft to fpring out of 
the Earth , as it certainly does, and as they who 
may be pleafed to fow the Seed in a Pot by it felf, 
may obferve, and fee its fpringing up but if they 
meet with no Herb or Plant, upon which they may 
twine themfelves and clamber, they loon perilh and 
die away : ) and from this Reafon I fuppofe it is, 
that feveral have thought them to grow as Mcfs 
upon Trees, or like Mijfelto : but after they have 
lott their Ground-roots, I am apt to think, that the 
whole Plant draws its Nourilhment ( like as Ivy ) 
from thofe Plants on which it grows. Upon thele 
Strings or Threads, which are lometimes white and 
fometimes red, according to the Herb or Plant on 
which they grow, are found Clutters or fmall Heads 
of Husks, out of which proceed whitilh Flowers j 
which being palt away, do afterwards give fmall 
pale-colored Seed, fomewhat Bat, and twice as large 
as Poppy Seed. 
IV. Obfervation i. Pliny lib. 2 6. (dp. 8. makes 
two forts of Epithymum , making the one to be the 
Flowers of Time , as Diof corides before him did, 
both green and white : the other to be red Threads 
or Strings growing without Root. This Duplicity 
of kinds Matthiolus has confuted, and now molt of 
our modern Authors acknowledge but one kind, tho’ 
it may have fometimes white and fometimes red 
Strings, as Tragus firft obferved, growing on leve- 
ral Herbs, according to which, they are found to be 
of thofe two differing Colors. 
V. Obfervat. 2 . By this alfo it may appear, that 
neither Time nor Savory , nor any other Herb, do 
naturally, of their particular Seed, bring forth thefe 
Strings, but that they fpring from their own Seed, 
either Ihed or fcattered of themlelves upon the 
Ground, or coming among the Seeds of other Herbs 
which are fown. As alfo they creep upon various 
Plants, fo in the hotter Countries they dole upon 
hot Herbs, as on Thyme , Savory, Hyjjop. Marjoram , 
Rofemary , &c. but in England they, tor the molt 
part, climb upon colder Plants, as on Eearn, Elax, 
